FURIA announced that it has acquired the signature of former Luminosity member Henrique “HEN1” Teles.
The Brazilian AWPer player joined FURIA after Luminosity disbanded the roster. I will replace Rinaldo “ableJ” Moda Junior, who was put on the bench.
This is the first time FURIA has changed its roster since October 2018, when abelej was promoted from the second team to replace Guilherme. “spacca” Spacca.
FURIA hasn’t been able to keep up since June, when they climbed to number five in the world – reaching the semi-finals of DreamHack Masters Dallas and the finals of the ECS Season 7 Finals.
Despite winning the EMF CSGO World Invitational and Arctic Invitational titles, the Brazilian team has yet to make an impression in the major tournaments: finishing 9-12 at ESL One Cologne and a 1-3 in StarLadder’s New Challenger round Major.
The announcement came just 48 hours after FURIA left with suitcases at Games Clash Masters. The team that lost to Sprout in the semi-finals – the team was 20 ranks below FURIA.
HEN1, popularized while playing for Immortals, finished second at the PGL Major Krakow in 2017. He was substituted by Luminosity in August before the North American organization decided to disband the entire team. With HEN1, FURIA can use a double AWP setup – a tactic that MIBR was using when Vito “kNgV-” Giusuppe switched from INTZ.
FURIA will make their first appearance with the new roster this week, at DreamHack Masters Malmö, starting October 1. In their first game in Sweden, Brazil will face G2 first – France has yet to announce a team. Figure.
The current FURIA lineup is as follows:
Andrei “arT” Piovezan Yuri “yuurih” Santos Kaike “KSCERATO” Cerato Vinicius “VINI” Figueiredo Henrique “HEN1” Teles
Nicholas “guerri” Nogueira (coach)
Rinaldo “ableJ” Moda Junior (substitute)
Source link: CSGO: HEN1 joins FURIA
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